Scholars have roundly rejected a central argument of President Trump’s lawyers that abuse of power is not by itself an impeachable offense. But it turns out that another important legal figure has contradicted that idea: Mr. Trump’s MORE
In a 22-18 vote, the Virginia Senate just passed SB 601, which will eliminate Lee-Jackson Day and replace it with Election Day as a state holiday . Virginia celebrates Lee-Jackson Day the Friday before Martin Luther MORE
The first case of an infection with a new coronavirus has been discovered in the United States. A man from Washington state returned home after a trip to Wuhan, China, on Jan. 15, sought medical MORE
Ohio pediatrician, Dr. Nicole Baldwin and her staff, posted a video about the benefits of vaccines on the social media platform TikTok. She emphasized that vaccinating your kids will not cause them to develop autism; MORE
“Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour. And we are telling you to act as if you loved your children above all else.” -Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg took MORE
Claim: Trump thinks that when the House impeached him, it was for purely political reasons, to undo the 2016 election, and interfere with his re-election. Fact: Removing a duly elected president is “exactly the goal MORE
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on the Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump. Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the Republican-led Senate trial of President Donald Trump, who last year became the third MORE
President Trump‘s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday evening that he had been “misled” by Lev Parnas, a close associate who has accused him of conducting an effort to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe MORE
Bernie Sanders apologized to Joe Biden on Monday night for a surrogate’s op-ed claiming that Biden has a “big corruption problem.” “It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way. And MORE
As his impeachment trial gets underway, Trump delivered a speech at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The four-day summit includes some of the world’s top political and business leaders who will discuss the MORE
Trump’s legal defense team and Senate GOP sycophants have quietly plotted out contingency plans should Democrats win enough votes to force witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial, including an effort to keep former national MORE
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, has sent a letter requesting that Attorney General William Barr recuse himself from the investigation of Parnas and appoint a special prosecutor, MORE
Eight House Republicans will join Trump’s stellar legal team but not really serve in any specific capacity since they cannot speak during the trial and Moscow Mitch opposed the idea to begin with. It appears MORE
“Where is Wanda? She’s not here. She’s busy hiding disaster supplies!” Fury over the government’s mishandling of disaster aid following a spate of devastating earthquakes earlier this month, coupled with the recent discovery of unused supplies — MORE
Santa Anita suffered its third horse death in three days when a freak accident occurred during morning training on Sunday. Tikkun Olam, a 4-year-old gelding, collided with an unidentified other horse while training. The second MORE
On Tuesday, we begin the Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump. Moscow Mitch wants a short trial and will hold a lot of the proceeding out of the public’s view. His plan also calls MORE
“I’ve held my opinion on it for a very long time, but when you see the articles of impeachment they came out, I don’t think it was within Dr. King’s vision to have Americans dragged MORE
The legal team is also expected to argue that neither of the two articles is legitimate because they don’t say that the president broke the law. Many legal scholars say, however, that a president doesn’t have to break the law in order to commit an impeachable offense. MORE
A message from TSA: Don’t pack any heat. TSA announced that its officers seized 4,432 guns at checkpoints last year — the most in the agency’s 18-year history. It also says that 87% of those MORE
Thousands of gun rights supporters from Virginia and across the country are coming to Richmond for a rally in opposition to gun-control laws being advanced by the General Assembly’s new Democratic majority. After threats and indications of MORE
By end of 2020, the restaurant industry will be banned from using single-use straws. By 2025, towns and cities across China must reduce the consumption of single-use plastic items in the restaurant industry by 30 percent. MORE
The New York Times Editorial Board chose two women to endorse on Sunday, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. The board’s unconventional decision to back two different candidates is meant to MORE
About 62,000 dead or dying common murres (Uria aalge), the trophically dominant fish-eating seabird of the North Pacific, washed ashore between summer 2015 and spring 2016 on beaches from California to Alaska. Most birds were MORE
President Donald Trump sought on Sunday to assure American farmers and ranchers hit by a protracted tariff war with China that a trade agreement he signed with Beijing will lead to major purchases of U.S. MORE
Dr. King would have turned 90 years old on January 15, 2020, but his life was cut short by an assassin named, James Earl Ray. Facts and myths about the late, great Doctor Martin Luther MORE